Moths (Bavaria)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '  N , 9 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Franconia
County :	Bad Kissingen
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.8 km 2
Residents:	1665 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	97786
Area code :	09748
License plate :	KG, BRK, HAB
Community key :	09 6 72 134
Community structure:	10 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Fuldaer Str. 11 97786 Motten
Website :	www.motten.de
Mayoress :	Katja Habersack ( community of voters )
Location of the community of Motten in the Bad Kissingen district

Motten is a municipality and a state-approved resort in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen in northwest Bavaria ( Germany ). It is the only municipality in the Main-Rhön region that belongs to the Weser catchment area and to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

geography

Geographical location

Motten is located in the Main-Rhön region on the southwestern edge of the Rhön low mountain range . The Fliede tributary Döllbach ( called Döllau here ) flows through it. The Motten, located in the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park, is framed by the mountains Hohe Kammer ( 700  m above sea  level ) in the northeast, Ehrenberg (approx.  674  m ) in the southeast (location of the Maria Ehrenberg pilgrimage church ) and Große Haube (also called Mottener Haube ; 658 , 1  m ; location of an observation tower) in the southwest; the first two mountains mentioned are located within the Wildflecken military training area .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Motten is located between the municipalities of Ebersburg (Hesse) in the north, Wildflecken (Bavaria) in the east, Sinntal (Hesse) in the southwest, and Kalbach (Hesse) in the west, as well as the community-free areas Mottener Forst-Süd (Bavaria) in the south-southeast and Römershager Forst-Nord (Bavaria) in the south.

Community structure

Motten has ten districts:

Eckenwiesenhof ( wasteland ) Eisenhammer ( hamlet ) Fuchsenhof (wasteland) Haubenhof (hamlet) Kothen ( parish village , formerly an independent municipality)

Kretzenhof (hamlet) Motten (main town, parish village, formerly an independent municipality) Oberziegelhütte (wasteland) Speicherz ( Kirchdorf , formerly an independent municipality) Thomashof (wasteland)

history

In the year 837, Motten was first mentioned in a document in today's writing. The name is based on the genitive of the developed personal name Moto .

As Office moths of Hochstift Fulda moths was 1,803 in favor of Archduke Ferdinand of Orange secularized and fell in 1806 as part of the "province de Fulde" to France (from 1810 a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt of the Prince Primate von Dalberg). It was awarded to Austria at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The town has belonged to Bavaria since the Treaty of Munich in 1816 . In 1875 the municipality of Motten consisted of the following districts:

Eckenwiesenhof Fox farm Haubenhof I Haubenhof II Haubenhof III

Kretzenhof Moths Oberziegelhütte Streitenbergsmühle Wiesenhof

It belonged to the district office of Brückenau, which later became the district of Brückenau . The places Haubenhof I and II, Oberziegelhütte and Streitenbergsmühle went up in the growing local area of ​​Motten. The Wiesenhof was renamed Thomashof in the early 1990s.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipalities of Kothen and Speicherz were incorporated as part of the municipal reform.

On the evening of October 22, 2005, a tornado caused great damage in the industrial area and in nearby forests.

Population development

• 1961: 1491 inhabitants
• 1970: 1617 inhabitants
• 1987: 1641 inhabitants
• 1991: 1741 inhabitants
• 1995: 1961 inhabitants
• 2000: 1946 inhabitants
• 2005: 1935 inhabitants
• 2010: 1794 inhabitants
• 2015: 1771 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The Motten municipal council has twelve members. The most recent local election on March 16, 2014 , with a turnout of 70.33%, resulted in the following:

	Voting community moths	7 seats	(55.27%)
	Free voters Kothen-Motten-Speicherz	4 seats	(33.97%)
	Voting group Speicherz	1 seat	(10.76%)

Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the mayor.

mayor

Mayor is Katja Habersack (community of voters). In 2020 she succeeded Jochen Vogel (voter community).

coat of arms

Blazon : In black a silver oblique left bar covered with a vertical, floating black paw cross ; above a golden crown of leaves, below a golden thistle blossom.

Coat of arms history: In 1978 the formerly independent communities of Motten, Kothen and Speicherz merged to form today's community of Motten. The community area once belonged to the Fulda monastery. In the coat of arms, the colors silver and black and the black paw cross, also called the Fulda cross, indicate this past. The silver oblique left bar symbolizes the important road from north to south that led through the municipality in the Middle Ages. The golden crown of leaves is reminiscent of the Motten open court, which was opened in 1275 and 1277. The golden thistle blossom indicates the location of the municipality in the Rhön.
The coat of arms was awarded by the government of Lower Franconia on December 14, 1979.

Town twinning

The partner church is Ranville in France .

Architectural monuments

St. Bartholomew Church in Motten

See: List of architectural monuments in Motten (Bavaria)

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Motten (Bavaria)

Economy and Infrastructure

Motten has been the site of a brewery since the early 16th century. The prince-bishop's official brewery was sold on December 12th, 1791 to the farmer Johann Georg Will. The brewery existed until 1987 as Will-Bräu . Today it is called Hochstiftliches Brauhaus in Bavaria and belongs to the Hochstiftliches Brauhaus Fulda . There were also brick kilns in Motten, such as the upper brickworks. A few specimens of specially designed ridge tiles (with incisions of figures, sayings and names), the so-called "closing time tiles", have been preserved from the upper brickworks, for example objects by bricklayer Caspar Hardt in 1775 and bricklayer Matthäus Bös in 1867 and 1870.

The first company in the industrial park opened in 1991 was Paltian stairs construction. Its company founder is Karl Schuhmann in 1917.

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of 840,000 euros in 1999, of which 200,000 euros were net trade tax revenue.

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 242 in the manufacturing industry and in the trade and transport sector no employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work. In other economic sectors this figure was 64 people. There were 665 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of residence. There was one in the manufacturing sector and one in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 54 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​837 hectares, of which 227 hectares were arable land and 606 hectares were permanent green space.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

• Kindergarten: 117 places with 95 children
• Primary school: four teachers and 100 students

Personalities

• Peter Blum (* 1964), painter, lives in moths

literature

• Michael Mott : Old ridge tiles made from Motten (anno 1775) . In "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung , 57th year, No. 4, February 9, 1984, p. 16
• Michael Mott: A school trip to the high chamber / school event in 1878 at Motten . In: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung, 58th year, No. 20, September 5, 1985, p. 78
• Michael Mott: Ridge tile with a crucifixion scene made of moths . In: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung, 59th year, No. 15, June 6, 1986, p. 60
• Michael Mott: The Nepomuk statue in moths / statue of the "bridge saint" with enigmatic inscription (anno 1755) . In: "Buchenblätter" Fuldaer Zeitung, 62nd year, No. 11, April 25, 1989, pp. 41, 42; No. 15, June 5, 1989, p. 59
• Michael Mott: Mottener Mühle a picture of misery / The sad fate of a watermill in Motten (Streitenbergsmühle) / The listed house is falling apart / Crumbling walls . In: Fuldaer Zeitung, October 17, 1991, p. 17 (Series: DENK-mal!)
• Michael Mott: Where Lola Montez's bathtub is / The prince-bishop's Fulda hunting lodge on the Hohe Kammer near Motten / Famous by King Ludwig I of Bavaria / Today a refuge. In: Fuldaer Zeitung, August 13, 1992, p. 12 ( DENK-mal series! )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ All places in the community of Motten , search in the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online ; Last accessed: December 11, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Alphabetical index of places: Bad Kissingen district (directory of municipalities and formerly independent municipalities), on www.landkreis-badkissingen.de from January 1, 2013; accessed on December 11, 2017
4. ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria , status 1875
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 739 .
7. ↑ Reinforcement for the ladies in the Motten Council. March 18, 2014, accessed January 25, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Moths  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the community of Motten
• Entry on the coat of arms of Motten (Bavaria)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Motten (Bavaria): Official statistics of the LfStat